Friday, July 17, 2015

Mangal dhoon is one of the finest dhoon of Nepal. Mainly, Mangal dhoon is played at the festival called Dashain. Dashain is one of the biggest festival of Nepal. This dhoon empowers the people which gives strength to Nepali PeopleWatch And Listen Mangal Dhoon By Sur Sudha

Saturday, July 4, 2015

" If a man says he isn't afraid of dying, he is lying or he is a Gurkha ". This is the spirit of Nepalese people.

The Tale of Nepalese Bravery

The British declared war against Nepal on November 1, 1814, after
full preparations for the invasion years back. The British had deployed
four divisions of their army numbering over 150,000 and invaded Nepal on
four fronts. The Commander in Chief was Lord Hastings, and each
division was led by a major general.

On October 30/31, 1814, General Rollo Gillispie-led British companies
of 4,000 troops moved close to seize the Fort of Kalunga, Dehradoon
where Bal Bhadra was holding with a force of a mere 600, including women
and children. At 10 a.m., the British army launched an assault on the
Fort of Kalunga. With the battle cry “Ayo Gorkhali, Ayo Gorkhali”, the
Gorkha troops were out of the fort, followed by a band playing the tune “Ae Nepali, Sheer Uchali” (“Ae Nepali keep your head high”). Leading them was Bal Bhadra on a horse, swinging his sword and holding the flag with the image of Hanuman.

Bravest of the brave

The Gorkha attack with their glistening Khukuris killed many enemies.
The rest fled, leaving their wounded and dead behind. On October 31, at
11:15 a.m., General Gillespie himself charged but only to be killed
instantly. This brave general lost his life fighting with a braver
enemy. In the battle of Nalapani, Bal Bhadra and his soldiers earned the
cognomen of the “bravest of the brave”. “It is here the British also
got to know the Gorkha as an admirable soldier, individual and human
being. Bal Bhadra allowed them to collect their dead and wounded without
mutilating them”. (A Re-discovered History of Gorkhas by Chandra B
Khanduri.)

“The defeats and reverses inflicted on the British asphyxiated and
virtually benumbed them at Kalunga, Jaithak, Jitgarh and Pearsa -
Samanpur. So terrifying assumed the name of the Gorkhas that they
dreaded them as frightfully as Napoleon’s in England. Lord Moira and
Generals Ochterlony, Bennet Marley, Geroge Wood and Sullivan Wood, and
Martindell (who moved as relief of the most brave and dynamic Rollo
Gillespie killed at Kalunga) did not know how to handle ‘those little
barbarians’, the Gorkhas. They outsmarted them in every aspect of the
intrepidity and tactics. It went on interminably when raw bravery and
valour on the battlefield had to be won by the British through deceit
and cunning.”

Bengal Artillery records, “History tells of army running away from
the generals, but there is no record of a general running away from his
army as General Marley did.” Gen. Marley had left his camp of Binjara
Pokhra before daylight on February 10, 1815. This deserter Gen. Marley
was not only allowed to remain in the army but was promoted to serve as
Commandant of the Allahabad garrison. He died as a full general at
Barrackpore on June 14, 1842 – a full 27 years later.

In similar circumstances, Marley’s “one time Gorkha opponent Bhagat
Singh, according to British sources with similar acts of indolence, was
paraded in petticoat in the Durbar”. Britain, determined to overrun
entire South Asia in a short period, never imagined that it would have
to encounter soon a different kind of enemy who “stood his ground and
whose soldiers would chase the British for miles with Khukuris in their
hands”.

“To the Gorkhas, women were both wives and mothers as also fighters.
Some of them moved about dressed as men. Besides nursing the wounded and
the dying, they built walls and collected stones to be thrown as
missiles. Perhaps, the first example of women joining the men in
fighting a modern enemy was found in this war”. The western modern army,
who employed female folks as stretcher bearers or musicians, must have
viewed these brave women with awe.” Speaking of the women’s role at the
battle of Kalunga, Kennedy, Vansitart and Fraser wrote of the Gorkha
women’s valour: “During the assaults on the fort, women were seen
hurling stones and undauntly exposing themselves.”

Mac Muun, a lieutenant in the British Army, in his book “Vignettes
from the British War”, compares Kalunga with Chittor when he writes,
“After evacuation of the fort by Bal Bhadra, it was like the scene of
desolation of Chittor in 1533 when 32,000 Rajputs, including 13,000 in
their flower of youths and beauty, lay dead through Jauhar and fight.”
The difference lay only in one thing, whereas the Rajputs sacrificed
themselves more due to fear of indignity the Muslims would afflict to
them, the Gorkhas in Kalunga had inflicted defeat on their mighty foe
and come out dignified. They transcended Rajput bravery.

Pender Moon writes: “The overall setback of the British and
their defeats at Kalunga and Jaithak, the timidity of General Wood and
desertion of General Marley had shaken the British self-confidence and
gave rise to their enemies’ wide hopes of strengthening their arms to
drive them out. The Marathas, Scindias, Holkars and Peshwas, Amir Khan,
the Nizam and Ranjit Singh were unanimous in their design - though not
united to do so. The Gorkha bravery and resistance sent waves of
jubilation all over India and, indeed, sensation”.

But these great warrior nations didn’t join the Nepalese in
the war against Britain. The British had cunningly managed to hook them
in their alliance. A historian writes, “Had the Sikhs (of Ranjit Singh),
Marathas and even Oudh supported the Gorkhas - forgetting Nepalese
arrogance as an inaccessible trivia - history of colonialism in Asia
would have had a full stop”.

Prior to and throughout the war, Amar Singh Thapa, in the
words of Hamilton, was like a second Hannibal of Asia who tried to forge
Asian solidarity against British imperialism. All Asian nations were
appealed to join the war but Nepal had to go alone against its mighty
foe that ruled half of the world.

However, the Anglo-Nepal war ended with the signing of the
Sugauli Treaty, which established Britain as the partial victor. On
April 16, 1815 at 3:15 a.m., 74-year-old Bhakti Thapa lost his life in
the Battle of Deontal and created the next legend of the bravest of the
braves. Hasti Dal, “a jewel of a Gorkha commander”, fell victim to
British deceit on April 23, 1815. This was one among the many deceitful
means the British had opted to defeat Nepal.

Kathmandu’s inept politiciansThe irony of the war was that the Durbar, by the end of 1815,
had made nonentities the deciders of Nepal’s fate. Even Kaji Amar Singh
Thapa was marginalised. “For the British it was a triumph of a bluff
and bluster”. When Prime Minister Bhim Sen Thapa agreed for a truce to
prepare for another war, “the great sacrifices of the Gorkhas had been
squandered by the inept politicians at Kathmandu and their field
commanders on the Nepalese border”. The Anglo-Nepal war thus ended with
the signing of the Sugauli Treaty on December 11, 1816.

Nepal had to cede nearly half of its territory. Nevertheless,
20 years after the Sugauli Treaty, the British still feared of the
possibility of Nepalese revenge for tricking them into the Treaty of
Sugauli. In 1833 Brain Hodgson wrote, “Nepal is biding time to avenge
its defeat in the last war”.

This phobia of Gorkha retaliation haunted the British for
centuries and has never faded. “The fear of causing debilitating damages
to the British military’s reputation of the so-called invincibility or
the rock foundation of power” as Sir Charles Metcalfe called it,
“haunted them for almost a century”.

Former
Chief of staff of the Indian Army, Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw - See
more at:
http://blog.nepaladvisor.com/nepalese-gurkhas/#sthash.EewLDLrI.dpuf

Former
Chief of staff of the Indian Army, Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw - See
more at:
http://blog.nepaladvisor.com/nepalese-gurkhas/#sthash.EewLDLrI.dpuf

Former
Chief of staff of the Indian Army, Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw - See
more at:
http://blog.nepaladvisor.com/nepalese-gurkhas/#sthash.EewLDLrI.dpuf

Friday, July 3, 2015

Nepal is a small landlocked country and People of Nepal are called Nepalese. Nepalese are the most kindest and bravest people in the world. They aren't afraid of death and they love their country more than themselves.

Why Nepalese are Kindest people in the World ?

Nepalese people know each other i.e they know each others pain, burden inside them. so whenever they were in trouble they help each other. They share their feelings, they share their troubleness, happiness, sorrowness etc. It somewhat decreases their pain and burden inside them. It only doesn't show the "kindness-nism" of Nepalese people.

You know what, Recently Earthquake hits Nepal by 7.9 magnitude richter scale. Many people lost their life, their shelter, their son, their daughter, their everything. Beyond this, one Nepali lady who lost her everything shows her kindness toward T.V reporter.

You may see kindness when you travel in Nepal they show warm feeling
toward you which shows a "kindness-nism" of Nepalese people. Visit Nepal
to see the beauty of kindness-nism of Nepalese and Nepal.